As the field bags and tags, Abraham Korotki (Bethany Beach, DE) is not only the chip leader with 260,100, but he's also $5,000 richer as the Day 1A leader. He says his biggest pot of the day was 60k and that he was able to chip up after the dinner break.

Korotki holds off WSOP bracelet winner Vanessa Selbst and WPT title holder Will "The Thrill" Failla for the extra cash.

Approximately 240 players remain with an average stack of 58k (96BB) when players return for Day 2 Tuesday.

Allen Kessler still looking for his first pair. He's below average in chips, looking to scoop some hands and forge a comeback.

To Kessler's right sits poker pro Ebony Kenney who was amongst the chip leaders after dinner break. Ebony is aware of the $5,000 bonus and likes the incentive but said she's not going to change her game or let it influence how she plays towards the end of the night.

Ebony was moved to Kessler's table but all morning sat to the right of Allen Cunningham.

Players at the table were joking which Allen she liked better? She was polite in evading her answer so I jumped in, "whoever gives her more chips".

Back from dinner break. Had a chance to report on some of the big stacks. If you have over 100,000 you're amongst the chip leaders. Don't forget whoever has the most chips at the end of the night gets a $5,000 prize.

Table three has a ton of chips.

Lee Childs with 113,000 in seat 3.

Audulah Delianin sitting on 130,000 in seat 8.

But Jason Min leads the table with 170,000 in seat 7. In fact, Jason has more chips than everyone in the entire room.

Other leaders include:Darren Elias at T-11, S-7 with 165,000.Ari Buchman at T-14, S-9 with 160,000.Ebony Kenney at T-27, S-4 with 100,00.

Ebony just took a hit after folding a river all-in on a board with three spades.

Our chip leader Jason Min scooped a nice pot and a knock-out after his 7-7 saw a 7 in the window and held on a board of: A-2-7-K-4.

Who will take home the $5,000?

We'll keep you updated.

And don't forget if you bust out tonight, you can re-buy again tomorrow. And if you're short on chips, you can turn them in and re-buy again tomorrow.

Will 'the Thrill' Failla won the Legends of Poker WPT Championship just a couple of weeks ago, then headed to Europe to play in the Partouch Poker Tour event.

Will 'the Thrill' Failla

He cashed in that event and jumped on a plane back to the states to play today. He made it just in time to register for day 1A and go seated at table 14 with Abe Korotki (Brent Hanks was at this table, but busted out already).

Adam Gerber has been absent from the poker scene in recent months and inquiring minds wonder why.

He's been coaching little league baseball.

August 2011:

"The Moorestown 8U District recreation baseball team (pictured) won the
Cal Ripken South Jersey Championship for players aged 8 and younger,
held in Hamilton, after beating Marlton 9-6. Coach Adam Gerber’s team of
elementary school-aged athletes went undefeated for 20 straight games,
advancing to the Mid-Atlantic Regionals in Great Kills, N.Y."

The secret of their success, according to Coach Adam Gerber, is: “Smile, have fun.”

Photo courtesy MoorestownPatch.com.

We'll see if Adam's formula for success translates from the green diamond to the green felt.

45 players were supposed to return for the 6-max, but Jeremy McLaughlin (Washington, D.C.) is a no show. There's an APB out for 2010 Borgata Poker Open Heads Up Champion who's MIA.

Two players putting the remaining 43 players on the bubble as they're now playing hand-for-hand. McLaughlin can easily blind into the money with 244k, but the poker pro is missing a chance to chip up and take down the $93,259.

A lot of heavy hitters are still in the field including Matt Affleck, Keith Crowder, Joey "The B" Brooks, Toddy Terry, Vinny Pahuja, Adam Lippert, John Lakatosh and Will Jaffe.

Table 7 has turned into a monster. Not one but two WPT title holders are seated there.

Steve Brecher is in the four seat and Jonathan Little is in six. Steve won his WPT championship at the Bay 101 Shooting Star in 2009.

Jonathan has two WPT titles, one from 2007 at the Mirage Poker Showdown and one from 2008 at the Foxwoods World Poker Finals.

Steve Brecher, Joseph Altomonte, and Jonathan Little

Also at that table, in seat one, is Ivan Mamuzic, who finished 3rd in the WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship here in 2009.

Finally, stuck in-between the two WPT title holders in seat 5, is Joseph Altomonte, who won a preliminary event here during the 2010 Borgata Summer Open and has numerous other final tables and cashes here.

In a recent hand, Joseph Altomonte tangled with Ivan Mamuzic. At the river, Joseph showed pocket Kings which were good. Ivan mucked and Joseph picked up a nice pot.

Also taking place in the event center today are Championship Event qualifiers (aka satellites).

The $200 + $30 version is underway in the back. Approximately 1 in 18 players will win a seat into the main event for day 1B.

One of those hopefuls is Chris Racioppo. Chris won a contest on WFAN Sports Radio in New York, garnering a seat in this satellite.

Chris Racioppo

He's hoping to win his way into the main event so that he can then win some life-changing money (last year Dwyte Pilgrim won over $733,000). If he does, he's going to tell his bosses at SHI International, where he's a sales manager, where they can stick that job.

Sunisa is letting the crowd know about the blind increase. Players are still arriving and locating their seats. Late registration is available through the break after level four, so until about 4:30pm today.

Of course if anyone misses registering today, they can always register for day 1B which starts tomorrow at 11am.

Day 1A of the WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship event is underway. The first wave of hopefuls are still arriving and locating their seats here in the event center.

Players began with 30,000 chips each and levels are 75 minutes long.

Level 1 blinds are 25/50, so the starting stack contains 600 big blinds. With such large stacks and small blinds, some players will take the opportunity to sleep late and skip the first level, letting their stack get blinded off.

Nevertheless, Mike Sexton has issued the directive to "Shuffle Up and Deal!"

Joey "The B" doubles up after flopping a bigger set than his Opponent on the button.

Be careful on those limped pots. And both players were limping with pairs.

Joey 8-8 vs. Opponents 5-5

Flop of 5-9-8 caused Joey to shove over top of Opponents pot size bet.

Opponent tanks for what felt like an entire level. Can't blame him after he tabled what he tables. He really thought about folding. "I almost folded. I knew you wouldn't go all-in unless you had something" cried Joey's Opponent in seat 1.

Each player put the other on a straight or a straight draw.

Turn 4, River J pushes the pot to "The B" who is now up to 220,000 while his Opponent sets sail off into the horizon.

After Jeff Papola's (Little Egg Harbor, NJ) A-J off ran into pocket kings, Edward Phan (Lansdale, PA) gave him the one-two punch out the door.

Hand 1) Jeff shipped his big blind holding J-9 of spades. Phan calls on-the-button and shows 3-3. Edward has to sweat as the flop falls 5-2-A with two spades. Alas a 3 and 6 round out the board cleanly. Jeff down to just a few thousand and Phan doubles to 50,000.